(ANSA) - NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 23 - Air travel in the US is returning to pre-pandemic levels. Even in normal times, the vacation days around Thanksgiving, which falls on the last Thursday of November, are a sensitive time for airlines. But this week is the biggest test of the sector since the beginning of the Covid emergency, because the Transport Security Administration - the government agency for flight safety - foresees the passage to security checks at airports of about 20 million passengers in the period of 10 days. started last Friday.
Last Saturday alone, two million people passed through the American airports, double that of last year.
Deltae United Airlines said they expect they will fly only 12% fewer passengers than in 2019. Check-in times have exceeded two hours in major courts such as New York's JFK.
And the demand has also increased the cost of tickets: Hopper, an app that predicts flight prices, reported that an average domestic ticket during the week of Thanksgiving (if purchased well in advance) averaged $ 293 per way. about 48 dollars more than in 2020. (ANSA).
